Layout Enhancement proposal: Overloading '-' for vertical

I think overloading the minus operator to add elements vertically might be a workable shortcut?

So, instead of doing:

layout = elem1 + elem2
layout.cols(1)

I suggest this as the shortcut for that:

elem1 - elem2

but maybe there are issues with that approach I’m not seeing. Thoughts?

[jbednar]

I’ve previously proposed e1 / e2 (e1 “over” e2) for that purpose, but I think anything like that is waiting on the Bokeh Layout work that has yet to come to a conclusion.

[jbednar]

Yes, .cols(1) will give you a vertical layout, but what I’m hoping out of / or - is a compositional layout, combining both vertical and horizontal layouts, with an expression like (a+b*c)/d + e*f yielding:

 ____   ___   ________
|    | |   | |        |
|  a | |b*c| |        |
|____| |___| |        |
 __________  |  e*f   |
|          | |        |
|     d    | |        |
|__________| |________|

Right now, you have to use Panel’s Row and Column objects if you want a layout like that, which is fine but not very convenient and shouldn’t be necessary for hv users since hv has its own notion of layouts that don’t require recourse to an external library.